The information in this article is relevant only for Pro users at this time. For information about booking websites for Lite users, refer to the Guesty Booking Engine
Setting up your Guesty website's domain is essential, as it establishes your site's online presence and makes it accessible to visitors. Guesty offers a few domain options for your website:
- Publishing your site using the the default domain Guesty provides you
- Connecting your owned custom domain,
- Creating a new custom domain through Guesty.
Before you begin:
Currently, you cannot use the same domain you use for Guesty Booking Engine for your website. This feature is still being developed.
Follow the instructions below to create a new custom domain for your Guesty Advanced Website.
Step by step:
- Open the desired site, then click Publish (or Republish if your site was previously published).
- In the pop-up, click Continue to select a domain.
- Creating a new custom domain is included in the subscription fee for publishing an Advanced Website.
- By default, the site domain is set to auto-renew. Contact us if you would like to cancel your subscription.
- Creating a new custom domain is included in the subscription fee for publishing an Advanced Website.
- Select Get a new custom domain.
- Type your desired domain and a list of available options will populate in the field.
- Click Get it next to the domain you want to purchase.
- Complete the required fields with the domain owner's information, and then click Done.
Making changes in your custom domain
- You can change your site's domain at any time.
- In case you added a domain for your Advanced Website, you can move it to your Basic Website. Do not disconnect the domain, and contact us to make the change.
- Please contact us to disconnect your domain. Do not delete your Guesty Website before we disconnect your domain. In case you decide to remove your Guesty Websites site, please note it is not optional to migrate the domain you created out of Guesty Websites. Once your site is removed, the domain will become free to purchase by others.
Next steps
After selecting your domain, it can take up to 24 hours for your site to become available at your domain and for it to load properly on all devices.